Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun] [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether it was the disappointment showing on my face I shall never know , for my guide quickly added that it was a Celtic path and , perhaps , more than 4,000 years old . |
| 2 | While ensuring adequate ventilation through their permeability both fleece and related polypropylene fibre black mulch materials allow any rainfall , watering or liquid feed to pass directly to the plant and root system avoiding the water shedding problems experienced with most plastic covers , mulches and conventional cloche systems . |
| 3 | The Restaurant , although renowned for its seafood also boasts and good selection of meat and poultry dishes as well as vegetarian dishes e.g. the special vegetarian paella . |
| 4 | The results of this tour , so far as the ladies of the party were concerned , tended to confirm all my previous impressions of their valour and vigour , and also to the strengthening of my determination never to undertake or propose any arrangement from which the ladies must of course be excluded . |
| 5 | She still filled her boring blue costume wonderfully , I noted — while part of my mind slowly realized that my ship 's damaged preceptors probably had kept Posi from spotting their approach . |
| 6 | But erm in the back of my mind there comes that she 's saying to me do n't get involved , do n't get involved . |
| 7 | They are solitary creatures who would happily spend most of their lives either eating or sleeping . |
| 8 | However , their positions are threatened and the impermanence and insecurity of their lives suddenly revealed when the ‘ hinds ’ and farmers begin to demand reform of the bondager system . |
| 9 | Disabled patients who speak well of their doctors often say that they spend time with them , they listen , are helpful , visit regularly and are reliable . |
| 10 | And when we say , or the A N C and democratic organizations say , that you need a five percent vote to cross the hurdle to get in to the assembly and then you , you , you 're a member of their parliament so to say and then what do we hear ? |
| 11 | Customers who declined to pay cash across the counter with ‘ real ’ money , a cheque or by direct debit , or produced a bank credit card , found the price of their purchases greatly increased if they were a store card holder . |
| 12 | As more people live to ages of 85 plus , the age of their carers also increases and elderly carers will be less able to cope . |
| 13 | The next thing I saw was my kite diving away from me , the roar of its engine gradually fading as it plunged earthwards . |
| 14 | Each quartier felt , and wanted to feel itself , self-sufficient , which indeed it often was , since many of its residents both worked and lived in it . |
| 15 | I recently took my beloved Washburn EA30 out of its case only to find that , somewhere between a local theatre and home , I 'd managed to lose one of the plastic slide covers from the EQ ; a tiny thing , I know , but unless you 're Superman , totally unnoticeable from more than a foot away . |
| 16 | But , once it has spread so that its dimensions parallel to the wall are large compared with the boundary layer thickness , the motion over most of its area closely resembles that in a fully turbulent boundary layer to be described in Sections 21.5 and 21.6 . |
| 17 | In the general election of February 1985 the Human Rights Protection Party ( HRPP ) won 31 seats in the Fono but 12 of its MPs subsequently defected and , in January 1986 , entered into a coalition government with the rival Christian Democratic Party . |
| 18 | It was on the tip of her tongue then to ask if he had managed to dispatch the papers to whoever they were destined for , but she held back the question before it got uttered . |
| 19 | I think that some people may not realise fully too is that in order to make a decision you have to be full informed , and teachers are very busy people and a teacher really is spending nearly every moment of his day either teaching or preparing to teach , and it 's impossible , therefore , to establish in a school or a community college the faculty committee structure that one might have in a university , where people do probably spend some time informing themselves before debate . |
| 20 | In fact he was one of the intellectual élite ; none of his contemporaries ever thought that Wordsworth was ill-educated . |
| 21 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 22 | The hairs on the back of his neck suddenly prickled and stood on end . |
| 23 | The anthropological fieldworker who eventually returns to the social setting of his homeland usually finds that it has become quite a different place . |
| 24 | Alwin Schockemohle used to say that the palms of his hands always sweated when he was near a good horse , and when Arthur was about his hands were permanently wet . ’ |
| 25 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 26 | Despite his phenomenal energy the sheer size of his dominions inevitably meant that it could be months or even years before he was free to deal with a distant crisis or give his officials the support they needed against a major local potentate . |
| 27 | ONE of your contributors recently stated that we were now in a post-apartheid period . |
| 28 | Some of our critics obviously forgot that our recommendations apply to children of all abilities . |
| 29 | I have no doubt that most of our partners now realise that British scepticism about economic and monetary union was right and that Europe must be saved from unthinking , slap-happy federalism . |
| 30 | When he is first led into her presence she is veiled ‘ but with her draperies so arranged that they emphasised rather than concealed the wonderful elegance of her tall form ’ and ‘ two plaits of glossy , raven hair ’ , each ending in a ‘ single large pearl ’ , appear beneath her veil . |